Ask HN: What do you use Clojure for?

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I have been using Elixir for several months in a web-dev context and have thoroughly enjoyed it. I have also used Lisp here and there for puzzles/education. I am thinking of exploring Clojure, but have zero idea of where to begin.

What have you found Clojure exceptional for in your job and/or personal projects?

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I have found Clojure to be fantastic to run a backend service that requires data analysis and processing.

Currently I use Clojure as the backend to power iData[1], a website filled with data visualizations and processing. My biggest project was the survey[2] and its accompnyaing dashboard[3] as the first required a lot of db thinking in Datomic but was swift to excute and the later benefited from Clojure's concurrency and caching!

[1]: https://www.iraqidata.com/en

[2]: https://www.iraqidata.com/en/DigiCompSat

[3]: https://www.iraqidata.com/en/DigiCompSatDashboard

Offtopic: As an Iraqi Kurd, it's quite amazing (and surprising!) to find another Clojurian in Iraq. Also, the website looks and runs great!

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